Example sentences of "been [verb] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been examined as a potential animal feed . |
| 2 | It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar . |
| 3 | ( Pound had studied some of the same French poets , notably Laforgue and Rimbaud , but he had profited by them in a quite different way from Eliot , and he was averse to the central thrust of the symboliste endeavour , to which indeed the imagist or imagiste movement which he had sponsored had been intended as a challenging alternative . ) |
| 4 | It may , at the time when it was built , have been intended as a final resting-place for the priestesses of the Knossos Labyrinth , rather than , as is often assumed , for the Knossian kings . |
| 5 | It is just different from what it would be had Gloriana been intended as a Grand Opera in the A ida sense . |
| 6 | The offensive appeared , initially , to have been intended as a tactical show of strength designed to secure a better bargaining position in peace talks , due to resume on July 15 but " indefinitely suspended " by the government [ see p. 38283 ] . |
| 7 | Hepatitis B was formerly referred to as ‘ serum hepatitis ’ because percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood has long been recognized as a major mode of transmission ; and cases of hepatitis B from blood transfusion , needlesticks , and sharing contaminated needles among drug abusers have been well documented . |
| 8 | The privatization programme has been recognized as a major break with the mixed economy consensus . |
| 9 | On April 10 the opposition Movement for Development and Democracy ( MDD ) , which had never been recognized as a political party , had stated that more than 40 people , including the MDD leader Goukouni Guët , had been arrested in February in neighbouring Nigeria and extradited to Chad at the request of the Chadian government . |
| 10 | Barred galaxies have been recognized as a separate class of galaxies since the 1920s , and in 1964 de Vaucouleurs suggested that the Milky Way contains a bar to explain the observed noncircular motions of the atomic gas at the centre . |
| 11 | The Bible has long been recognized as a composite work spanning many centuries , not some kind of monolithic whole , and whilst opinions differ widely as to the precise dating ( and methods of dating ) of its constituent parts , it remains the case that a book , or indeed a chapter , may lie in the received text next to a verse or chapter some several centuries removed in compositional/redactional terms from its neighbour . |
| 12 | Overflow soiling and constipation Constipation has been recognized as a common cause of encopresis ( Levine 1975 ; 1982 ) . |
| 13 | So far labour has been treated as a passive agency responding to the pressures of market forces and managerial authority but how has labour reacted collectively to the loss of property rights in particular skills ? |
| 14 | In the present study , the thesis has been treated as a quasi-formal entity , which possesses enough attributes of the formal to enable comparisons to be drawn with fully formal conventional publications , such as journal articles , but which also possesses some elements of informal , personal communication , in that it can be regarded as the fulfilment of a one-to-one contract between the researcher and the university . |
| 15 | It said that terrorism had too often been treated as a law-enforcement problem when it should be treated as a matter of national security and an act of aggression against the USA . |
| 16 | For instance , you can build up a design that looks as though it has been pressed as a single spray ( see pp. 98–9 ) , although in fact each flower and leaf should be positioned with care to give a natural effect . |
| 17 | Q Magazine has been redesigned as a direct response to the two main concerns expressed by readers in the survey carried out after issue number 4 . |
| 18 | There is one other country that has been floated as a serious contender — Japan . |
| 19 | The time that the candidate has been registered as a supervised postgraduate student will normally count towards the period of study prescribed for the degree . |
| 20 | Sound Recordings for Community Services A check up will be made to ascertain whether the Village Association has been registered as a charitable organisation . |
| 21 | Sound Recordings for Community Services A check up will be made to ascertain whether the Village Association has been registered as a charitable organisation . |
| 22 | Wella Balsam Massaging Hot Oils have been developed as a pre-wash treatment to replace lost moisture to permed/chemically treated hair and dry/damaged hair . |
| 23 | Although the work has medical and therapeutic origins , it has been developed as a regular part of the Medau method of physical education and is intended for people of any age who are in normal health . |
| 24 | Mr Heseltine , who has achieved his ambition of heading an enlarged Department of Trade and Industry , has been given as a junior minister Mr Neil Hamilton ( Tatton ) , a Right-winger who is regarded as a keeper of the Thatcherite flame . |
| 25 | Her life had not been particularly adventurous and at school , where her friend Rosie Fortinbras courted adventure , she had been regarded as a dull girl and a plodding worker . |
| 26 | The right hon. Gentleman , who was a Treasury Minister throughout the lifetime of the Labour Government , will appreciate that figures such as those that I have just disclosed to the House would have been regarded as a complete impossibility in his time . |
| 27 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 28 | Admittedly , a No from the Bosnian Serbs should not be considered as an unequivocal , irreversible rejection of the peace plan , any more than a Yes should have been regarded as a wholehearted acceptance of it . |
| 29 | Mrs Clinton , the new First Lady , has supported the magazine since it was founded in the United States in 1972 , where it has been regarded as a valuable weapon in the campaign for women 's liberation . |
| 30 | In Britain , with its strong two-party system , a government defeat on a vote of confidence has long been regarded as a theoretical possibility rather than practical politics . |